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Lennie is portrayed the same or very similar in the movie as I pictured him from how Steinbeck described him in the book. I pictured Lennie to be significantly bigger than George, since George was described as small and Lennie was describes multiple times as a bull. In the book, the author described him as having big hands like ‘bear paws’, and when he was touching Curly’s wife’s hair, his hands were big just like bear paws. So I think that the casting directing did a good job in casting the…

still left a man of many parts.”4 Moreover, as they do share the same memory one can argue that Jekyll is responsible for Hyde's actions. He might not be able to control Hyde but he can make the decision to prevent evil events from happening. The one time he tries, his weakness fails him and resulted in the death of Sir Carew. The reader does not know exactly what Hyde is involved in except for the vague incident of him 'trampling' a child (which is seen by some critics as a euphemism for child…

WILLY WONKA- SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER About the character Willy Wonka is one of the main characters in Roald Dahl’s famous books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The character was portrayed by Gene Wilder in the 1971 film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 2005 film adaptation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Both the films and the books describe Willy Wonka as a phoenix-like man who…

Throughout the novel The Perfume- the story of a murderer, the author Patrick Süskind explores and displays his protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s journey from an orphan to the greatest perfumer in France with an array of different ways, ranging from an animal to a God. Süskind uses a variety of literary techniques such as zoomorphism, allusions, and imagery to reveal Grenouille’s fickle disposition. Consequently, the effect of making divine, animalistic and childlike comparisons of the…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is probably one of the best known works to come out of the Victorian Era. This short novella griped the audiences of the late nineteenth century Britons, and its popularity has not wavered. You would be hard pressed to find an average person who does not know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1894 Joseph Jacobs wrote that “it stands beside The Pilgrim’s Progress and Gulliver’s Travels as one of the three great…

The Dark Knight is the story of the infamous “Batman” and his iconic rival the “Joker” in which the two fight for the power over the city. The Joker’s character is described as a “sociopathic, killing clown” because his actions and his scars have such an impact on anyone he crosses. Both roles are classified as incognito. Mysteries consume the ones who watch this film as to what is the actual story behind the scars? Or was the joker actually an unethical hero? And especially the most asked, what…

comical chaos, they are the same, that is why they never truly end each other and will continue the endless cycle they are stuck in. While some would disagree with this, others say that the Bat is just as insane as the joker, maybe even more. There are times in comics, for example “The Killing Joke”, that have more or less proven this point. For example, at the end of the comic, while the two stand in the rain waiting for the police to arrive, the Joker tells Batman a joke. The Jokers is…

transform himself into Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde due to the drug he created. Mr. Hyde transforms himself into Dr. Jekyll giving Dr. Lanyon a shock causing him to face severe illness and eventually die. Dr. Jekyll is successful in separating the good and evil sides of humans by the usage of the drug, but cannot recreate the drug and in conclusion faces death. The drug taken by Dr. Jekyll is so powerful that it is able to transform him into both characters at anytime he wants. The drug created by…

In the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the Cherokee Myth, there is compared evidence of duality supported by the ideas that good and evil exists in everyone, appearance creates identity, and giving into temptation allows for weakness. There is the duality of good and evil, right and wrong, happiness and sadness. Robert Stevenson creates the idea that every character has two sides to them: good and evil. Similarly, there is duality between Dr.…

The 1931 film version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde offered an intricate web of thrilling plot points, rich, multi-dimensional characters, and erotic themes that were surprisingly forward for a horror film of that era. Fredric March superbly plays both the protagonist, Dr. Henry Jekyll (pronounced Gee-kel) as well as his diabolical alter ego/antagonist, Hyde. March fluidly sways between the two characters, giving credibility to Jekyll’s theory that there are two…